Regulation Changes

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Hey guys I'm considering trying to get Utah to allow a five rod limit while ice fishing like Idaho and Wyoming allow. I am thinking that it would apply more to our trout lakes such as Causey, Porky, Bear Lake, etc. and not so much our panfish lakes like Newton and Mantua. So for example places like Henrys and the gorge allow multiple rods while ice fishing but they are primarily trout lakes. I can't speak for lakes south of cache valley and how this change would benefit or hurt them. Do you guys think this is something worth chasing and working on or what is your opinion on the matter?

I ice fish in Idaho frequently and see people fishing 5 rods and I can tell you that they are not catching any more fish than I am using 1 sometimes 2 rods. I regularly double and triple the number of fish caught using 1 pole compared to the guys around me using 5. Henrys Lake gets as much pressure as any lake in Utah and studies of the fish in that lake show that 90% of the fish die of old age. My point is I don’t think it would have any great effect on people’s success if they allowed 5 rods. 1 rod in the hand is a lot more effective than 5 rods in holders including jaw jackers that tend to miss more fish than they catch. The time it takes to tend multiple holes is better spent and more productive watching your graph and actively fishing 1 pole. I think it is unlikely Utah would go to allowing 5 lines but if it did so don’t think it would have much of an impact.

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Hey guys I'm considering trying to get Utah to allow a five rod limit while ice fishing like Idaho and Wyoming allow. I am thinking that it would apply more to our trout lakes such as Causey, Porky, Bear Lake, etc. and not so much our panfish lakes like Newton and Mantua. So for example places like Henrys and the gorge allow multiple rods while ice fishing but they are primarily trout lakes. I can't speak for lakes south of cache valley and how this change would benefit or hurt them. Do you guys think this is something worth chasing and working on or what is your opinion on the matter?

I ice fish in Idaho frequently and see people fishing 5 rods and I can tell you that they are not catching any more fish than I am using 1 sometimes 2 rods. I regularly double and triple fish caught using 1 pole of the guys around me using 5. Henrys Lake gets as much pressure as any lake in Utah and studies of the fish in that lake show that 90% of the fish die of old age. My point is I don’t think it would have any great effect on people’s success if they allowed 5 rods. 1 rod in the hand is a lot more effective than 5 rods in holders including jaw jackers that tend to miss more fish than they catch. The time it takes to tend multiple holes is better spent and more productive watching your graph and actively fishing 1 pole. I think it is unlikely Utah would go to allowing 5 lines but if it did so don’t think it would have much of an impact.

a 10% catching-harvesting/mortality/preditation rate seems unbelievably low on such a hard fished lake my google skills are lacking
A link to real factual data supporting this "claim" would be appreciated otherwise i call bs

I found this with a quick Google search, but I recall reading a study from Idaho Fish and game siting the less than 10% angler mortality rate from when they opened the lake to ice fishing past January 1st for catch and release fishing.
[font=NonBreakingSpaceOverride, "Hoefler Text", "Noto Serif", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif]“The cutthroat generally live to be 4 years old but a few live to be around 6 years old. Mortality rates have been estimated at over 50 percent per year among catchable fish. However, most of the mortality is due to natural causes and not a result of fishing or angler harvest. Exploitation or the percentage of the fish population that is lost annually due to angling has been estimated at less than 5 percent.” https://www.henryslakefoundation.com/yel...oat-trout/[/font]